Duties Carried Out by Secretary/Treasurer
For further information, contact Reed Andrew @ 306-536-7892
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• Attend Board Meetings and record minutes (Usually 4 per year) March AGM. March, July, November and January board meetings
• Prepare draft agenda for president’s approval
• Email agenda, financial statement and minutes prior to meeting (1-2 weeks)
• Bring copies of the above to the meeting (10)
• Pickup mail on regular basis from WDM.
• Present a Financial Statement for each meeting
• Deposit revenue into chequing account at Affinity Credit Union
• Pay bills as you receive them
• Prepare a Year End Financial and Investment Statement to be approved by Board prior to AGM
• Books need to be reviewed by outside agency
• On investments, renew at maturity or if Escalator you can renew for higher rate on anniversary date
• Submit an Annual Review to Information Services annually
• Submit form to Registered Charities Information Return annually
• Prepare and Submit GST online- Jan- June and July to December
• Update members data base – Ministry of Agriculture has a yearly updated list of farm organizations
• Prepare and email SAHF Membership Invoices and Non-Members Invitations.
• Update and Post on the SAHF Website – www.sahf.ca Yvan Lebel will help
• Under Inductions – Inductees 1972-2025, update each year with new inductees and date of those who have passed
• Attend Standing Committee Meetings if required. If you don’t attend need to ask for submitted report to be kept on file.
• Collect new nominations (September 1st deadline), organize and present all nominations to Executive to review.
• After review (mid October )email all nominations to board of directors
• Your main contact is the president. Which everything needs to be cleared by him. Other board members requests for
your assistance needs to be okay by president.
• Induction Ceremony Committee
o Review citations prepared by the Ministry of Ag
o Contact Fastprint – Sharon Hildebrand for printing
o Review pages from fastprint before printing
o Order book pages- for new inductees and 2nd page of book changes
each year with the names of members at the bottom of page
o Pamphlets need to be reviewed and then printed (250-300)
o Help organize new books
o Update Board of Directors Board
o Prepare, email and collect sponsorship fees for the Induction
Ceremony
o Contact Ag-Bio to print poster re Invitation Ceremony to be placed on website for registration and mail a copy
to those without an email
• Update your contact list for email
For further information, contact Reed Andrew @ 306-536-7892